Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025

Lot 327

A Mumuye zoomorphic mask

Estimate £300 - £500

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Description

A Mumuye zoomorphic mask
Nigeria
carved as a bovine head with a pair of horns, forehead ridges and low relief circular eyes, with an open mouth, with red pigment and with a large fibre mount,
62cm high.

Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.